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Are you new to comedy podcasts, overwhelmed by the array of options, and wondering where to begin?
Scams, cons, robberies, and fraud!
With these five tantalizing words, comedianLaci Mosleywelcomes listeners into her delicious Earwolf podcast,Scam Goddess.
But she is also a professional comedian and actor, most famously fromPopTVsFlorida Girlsand theUpright Citizens Brigade.
In each episode, Mosley invitesfellow improvisersandpodcastersto riff on stories of criminal deception.
And in Scammer of the Week, guests celebrate the fools whose dopeyripoffs,schemes, andchicanerywent shamefully awry.
All this goes down in a rush of witticisms and one-liners.
Mosley is whip-fast with jokes, upstaging and amusingeven her funniest guestswith zingers.
It sounds hokey, but theres something genuinely beautiful and honest about this.
To be clear, Mosley is far from an apologist for scammers with clear malice in their hearts.
She is careful to avoid victim-blaming, andoffers trigger warningsto help protect her audience when things get too upsetting.
That Is it funny or is it horrible?
So it takes them four unusually shy minutes of ice-breaking to get to Lees own complicated relationship with fraud.
Not only does she not like scams; actually, she says, I hate when people get tricked.
I feel almost like a visceral sadness.
And I also hate being dishonest.
They got what we call a school-size paragraph?
Remember when a paragraph used to have to be three-to-five sentences?
That was a scam!
Ultimately, she suggests that Playa is as much scammer as scammee.
[Producers] are mean to us, Mosley says.
Then you get famous and everyone want to suck on your bootyhole.
Hes the cute one!
Sensing her guests growing discomfort, Mosley rushes to move on to the last segment.
